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Newly restored audio of classic Mack/Hopkins debate now available

Admin · March 2, 2021 ·

March 30, 2021 – A classic 1997 debate between two researchers of alien encounters – Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and New York-based artist / author Budd Hopkins – is now available as a free download on John Mack’s website.

The audio edition of this event has been expanded to an hour and 52 minutes in length – more than 50 minutes longer than a previously-released video version.

Click here for: Budd Hopkins & John Mack: A Dialogue on the Alien Abduction Experience (Expanded Audio Edition)

About the speakers:

John E. Mack, M.D., was professor of psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School; a Pulitzer Prize-winner for his biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder; and co-author of a dozen other books and more than 150 scholarly articles. His first book about how alien encounters affect people was Abduction. At the time of this event, he had not yet begun to write his second (and final) book on the subject, Passport to the Cosmos.

Author and artist Budd Hopkins investigated UFO abduction reports for more than twenty years. His first two books on the subject of alien encounters, Missing Time and Intruders, have just been re-released by August Night Press. As a painter and sculptor, Mr. Hopkins received numerous awards; his work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Moderator Christopher Lydon, at the time of this event, was host of the award-winning current-events talk show The Connection, broadcast from Boston’s NPR affiliate. Mr. Lydon spent more than thirty years in print, television, and radio journalism, contributing to The New York Times, The Economist, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, and Columbia Journalism Review.

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May 12, 2023 Rice University Karin Austin is the new executive director of the John E Mack Institute (JEMI). In this presentation she details the donation of John Mack’s archives to Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible, curated by Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D. I’d like to begin today with my deepest and my most sincere […]

February 2023 — JEMI is proud to premiere a new paper by Tiffany Vance-Huffman of Naropa University: “Shamanic Initiations, Alien Abduction Phenomena, and the Return of the Archetypal Feminine: An Experiential Distillation”. “The purpose of this paper,” Vance-Huffman writes, “is to change the way people think about anomalous experiences and illnesses of the body-mind by examining […]

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November 1, 2022 — Rizwan Virk, founder of Play Labs @ MIT, writes “It wouldn’t be the first time officials put the issue to rest without a full, open-minded investigation” in this essential editorial on NBC News’ THINK website. Christopher Mellon calls it “One of the most balanced and thoughtful recent articles regarding the UAP […]

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JEMI is named in recognition of John E. Mack, M.D. (1929-2004), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, to honor his courageous examination of human experience and the ways in which perceptions and beliefs about reality shape the global condition.

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